E-rostering team thanked for pandemic dedication

The e-rostering team were presented with their Team of the Month award by Ro Vaughan, Director of Human Resources

The e-rostering team have been recognised for their dedication during the pandemic. The team support nursing, midwifery and allied health professional rosters and help managers who use the system to control their staffing, annual leave, sickness absence, movement of staff between wards and staff skill-mix. This essential service ensures the right people are in the right place when needed, meaning care is delivered in a timely and safe manner.

During the pandemic the team had to work even more flexibly, redeploying staff on an ad-hoc basis. This included supporting the deployment of 150 aspiring nurses during the first wave and more than 300 additional staff, including external volunteers, on critical care rosters.

The team also faced the added challenge of training more than 2,000 managers on how to use a new version of the e-rostering system.

Staff have now been given the Team of the Month award.

Dawn Moss, Practice Development Nurse in Critical Care, said: “The team worked very hard behind the scenes with very little recognition of their massive workload. They enabled the critical care unit to project staffing numbers and their work also supported staff allocation. Without them we could not have achieved the impossible.”

Jason Ahern, E-rostering Manager, said: “It was a wonderful surprise and completely unexpected to get this award.  I feel immensely proud of how we have worked together. I am privileged to have such a dedicated team who quietly and efficiently get on with the task in-hand, no matter what’s asked of them.”

The small team are based at Trust Headquarters on the Royal Stoke University Hospital site and support more than 6,500 staff across the organisation.